Requirements

To be successful, you will need:

• Extensive experience in policy, advocacy, or influencing in WASH or related development sectors
  
• Strong understanding of global policy processes and multilateral systems (especially the UN)
  
• Proven experience developing and delivering impactful policy influencing strategies
  
• Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills, including producing high-impact policy outputs
  

Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:

• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field (e.g. international development, water, public policy)
  
• Experience working across multiple countries or regions, particularly in low-income contexts
  
• Additional language skills (European, African, or Asian languages)
  

In this role, you will:

• Influence key cross-cutting global policy processes (e.g. UN systems, global summits) and develop sector-leading policy positions
  
• Coordinate planning and implementation of cross-cutting policy priorities across the WaterAid federation
  
• Provide agile policy advice and rapid responses to strategic opportunities, including media engagement
  
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to strengthen collective impact
  
• Champion WaterAid’s commitment to equity, inclusion and safeguarding